Fifty Foot Combo

• Gent Jazz
  Sunday 5•July•2026
  16:45•

Since 1994, Fifty Foot Combo has been one of the loudest, most exciting and most idiosyncratic acts in Belgian underground music. What started as a surf trio grew into a six-man band that blends garage, fuzz, psych, exotica, soul and a touch of horror into one iconic whole: their "Monstrophonic Sound”. That hybrid, unmistakable sound has taken them from small basements in Ghent to major European festival stages over the course of their thirty-year existence, carried by a live reputation that remains tight, reckless and irresistible.

After a six-year hiatus, the band has been back since 2012 with the same furious drive and musical guts with which they sent their debut album Go Hunting into the world in '97. It even seems as if the band has only managed to raise the bar since then with their chaotic yet precise shows, where razor-sharp rhythms and a healthy dose of theatrical flair seduce everyone into dancing. Need another reason? Where better to showcase their Monstrophonic Sound than in their hometown? Exactly. This is going to be an uppercut you don't want to miss.

For fans of: The Sonics, Link Wray, Dick Dale, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion